The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THERE are 5000 boys taking lessons in military
matters from army officers serving as teachers
| in the colleges.
A WELLsvILLE o., BOY took his first chew OF
tobacco, became dizzy, and fell over a bank,
breaking an arm and receiving other injuries.
A LOWELL QMAss) WOMAN investigated blast
| ing cartridge brought home by a child, using
hair pin for the purpose, and lost TWO fingers IN
! consequence.
| THE Pennsylvania railroad made hash OF
carload of Chicago dressed beef near Tyrone
last Tuesday, for which impromptu cooking
| lesson the company must pay in the neighbor-
| hood of $1,000.
! IT is ESTIMATED that the pine trees on the
Menominee reservation, in Wisconsin, where
1900 Indians are quar;ered, would yield $4,000
! 600 feet of marketable lumber This lumber IS
| worth s. per 600 feet standing.
| THE scientific boring in the soil OF the Nile
Delta has reached depth of over 9OS feet with
| out finding the rock. 4 inch layer of blue
| clay has Just been penetrated, the OVERLAPPING
soil from depth of 100 feet being sand.
/ In Lancaster county Pennsylvania, q man
was imprisoned 29S days to insure his presence
as witness at murder trial, and when he put
in bill of 81 q day for his time the bill was not
only disallowed but the man was charged 81
week for board.
| CASES of piracy still occur on the Mediter-
ranean sea. The Italian schooner Pepino Salvo
was boarded near Gallipia, on the Tunisau
coast and robbed of sum of about S175O.
Several similar cases have lately occurred In
| the neighborhood.
IT IS REPORTED that during the war there were
l7s,95 negro soldiers enrolled in the United
States volunteer army-99, 337 by the authority
of the national government and 1858 by the
several States and TerrftoIieS-and OF this num-
Der 30, SAY died in service.
AT one time 56.pound rails were considered
very heavy and costly on American railroads.
The New York Central has for quite awhile been
putting down those OF so pounds to tne nneal
yard and the Pennsylvania road has undertaken
to put down 90-pounders. The big locomotives
can soon hammer away 10 their full bent.
IT is getting to be the fashion now in the up
per circles of Chicago society to name children
before they are born Engraved cards are sent
to friends the instant the new baby makes It's
advent into the world and to guard against
any mistake in prognostcBtion two sets OF cards
are printed, one bearing masculine and Inc
other feminine name
WHENEVER prominent man has two given
names the English papers seem to take an in
| tense pleasure in dropping the first and using
| the second in full In accordance with this
practice, a provincial English paper recently in
7 formed its readers that Mr.. Marshall DE Pew,
who has for some time been the efficient Presi-
| dent of the Central New York State, is now I'M
| derstood to be a prominent candidate for the
| Presidency of all the other United states OF the
| American government
| DIR. G. H. MARTIN, one of the men who caused
the revolution in the Hawaiian kingdom and
| practically overthrow King Kalakaua's govern
| Inent, said in regard to the story that Claus
Spreckels had quarreled with King Kalakaua:
| when Spreckels found that he could not rule
all of the other planters in the kingdom he left
| Honolulu He has not returned, and is not
| wanted. He cannot run the island Beet sugar
| is not as sweet or profitable as cane sugar and
| cannot compete with 1t.
The pedal either, development of the ordi
nary either, is coming into favor among the few
who know of this new instrument. The charac-
| ter of its sounds is NOR decided it is easier OF
comprehension. and can be more readily fin
gered, its possibilities of perfection in harmony
| are larger, and altogether it affords greater
| scope for executing musical compositions. As
! its name obviously suggests, its marked feature
| of superiority over the ordinary either consists
| in the facility with which effect can be given to
| the harmonic chords.
BY THE WAY, decree has gone forth from the
| highest authority in these matters that soiled
and wrinkled gloves which had their origin in
Sara Bernhardt's "go-as-you-please' style are
no longer good form. The present fashion OF
| trim and dainty skirts and partial return to
| the time of the Directoire in ladies' dress de-
| mands fresh, well-fttng glove, or the whole
| significance of the costume is lost. The reap
pearance of the neat, closely buttoned glove,
which outlines pretty hand so becomingly.
will be welc med by all who value finish and
completeness in a ladys evening toilet.
| AT VIENNA AUSTRIA, the club of tourists es-
tablished at the beginning of last year a weather
| station for the purpose of making prognostca-
lions of the weather. The forecasts are limited
/ to Saturday, the evening papers of which day
report the probabilities for the next day, SUM-
| day in order to enable the Viennese to make
| their preparations for their Sunday excursions,
| VIC out af
one hundred forecasts hitherto given there were
eighty exactly correct, as verified by the facts,
10 per cent just available but not quite correct,
and only 10 per cent, or one tenth of the proph-
| ecies, were failures
DR.. ERNEST BEsINER lately made a report to
the French Academy upon the temperance of
leprosy in Europe. The disease, he says, has
mad disquieting development in Spain, chiefly
| in the province of Valencia, whence large guam
titles of fruit and greens go to Paris and other
French cities. But the disease, he maintains,
can only be transmitted from man to man di-
rectly; it does not either travel by the ground or
| by water or by air Neither is it hereditary.
The bacillus of the disease is similar to that of
| tuberculosis: it may even be the same species.
The best means to prevent infection consists in
proper attention to hygiene cleanliness and
| careful diet.
| THE Sultan of Turkey is at present in highly
vrtuous state of mind. He has apparently only
| Just heard of what all the rest of the world has
! known for centuries that brisk trade in male
| and female slaves, chiefly the latter is CON
| Quoted by so-called pilgrims to and from Mecca.
| The Sultan has prohibited the traffic and or
dered an inquiry, but the trade goes on as usual
| thanks to the wealth of the slave dealers ena-
| bling them to heavily bribe the officials, whose
| salaries small enough in themselves, are gen
| orally two or three years in arrears. The Sui
! tau recently engaged in trying to raise a
! loan wher with to pay his long-sufferng SER
| wants week or two of these arrears, but he
| failed dismally, and so the sufferers returned to
their Matchmaking with the energy of despair.
| A LEGAL verdict against dead man is causing
a good deal Of gossip at the city of Lomberg,
| Austria The dead man concerned is no less
| person than the Duke de Chambord, former pre-
| tender to the crown of France. The court of
| the little city of TuTca gave a decision against
| one Henri Count de Chambord whose wherea-
bouts are unknown to the court, - or against his
| hers-at-law, equally unknown" to the effect
| that certain parts of the estate of Lomna re
| ported to be the property of Chambord, should
! be handed over to Solomon, Abraham and
| Naphtali HiIt One lawyer, Constantine Tell
! the Chambord estate until the lawful proprie-
| point some other representative The brothers
/ Hirt were quickly satisfied regarding their
| claims and Chambord's heirs have not yet put
| in an appearance.
Music has been invaded by a sporting spirit,
and we are likely to have in the future any num-
Der of contests for the testing Of the endurance
and skill of rival players on various Instruments
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